After the start-up procedures and hot commissioning activities have been successfully completed, Severstal pushed first coke from Block 1 of its brand-new coke oven battery No. 11 at its integrated steel works at Cherepovets, Russia, on 27 November 2020. Subsequently, the coke dry quenching plant #3 also started up.This is a decisive milestone in Severstal’s project of building a new cokemaking complex, comprising two coke oven batteries (Block 1 & Block 2) with 56 coke ovens each and desi

Paul Wurth proudly announces that the company has been awarded recent orders for engineering services, the supply of coke oven machines as well as of SOPRECO® valves to be implemented at two new Jumbo coke oven batteries of stamp charging type built by the end customer Xinxing Ductile Pipe Co., Ltd. in Handan City, Hebei Province, China. The Chinese customer is relying on proven Paul Wurth stamp charging technology for large-size batteries of the next generation.In the frame of a cooperation ag

Taiwan’s largest steel company China Steel Corporation (CSC) has chosen Paul Wurth to supply state-of-the-art coke making technology for a new coke oven complex to be built at CSC’s Kaohsiung steel mill.Paul Wurth’s scope will comprise two batteries, two sets of coke oven machines and the upstream portion of a new coke oven gas treatment plant. For these plant units, the contract, which was officially signed on 24 November 2020, includes engineering, supply of key equipment as well as supe